Mkandawire, Thandika


Professor Thandika Mkandawire  

Department

Position held

Department of International Development

Professor of African Development

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm

Olof Palme Professor For Peace

Experience keywords:

economic policy; development; development theory; political economy of development in Africa; social policy in developing countries

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Professor Thandika Mkandawire is former Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the first person to take on the position of Chair in African Development at LSE. Prof Mkandawire was formerly Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen and has taught at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe.

His research interests are mostly in development theory, economic policy and development and social policy in developing countries and political economy of development in Africa.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Africa

Languages:

French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Chichewa [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Swedish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7563

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2011

Mkandawire, Thandika (2011) Institutional monocroping and monotasking in Africa. In: Stiglitz, Joseph, (ed.) Good growth and governance in Africa. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 80-113. ISBN 9780199698561

Mkandawire, Thandika (2011) Welfare regimes and economic development: bridging the conceptual gap. In: FitzGerald, Valpy and Thorp, Rosemary, (eds.) Overcoming the persistence of inequality and poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230249707

Mkandawire, Thandika (2011) Rethinking Africa's re-industrialisation and regional co-operation: what is the best way forward? In: Mbeki, Moeletsi, (ed.) Advocates for change: how to overcome Africa's challenges. Picador Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. ISBN 9781770101203

Mkandawire, Thandika (2011) Rethinking pan-Africanism: national and the new regionalism. In: Moyo, Sam and Yeros, Paris, (eds.) Reclaiming the nation: the return of the national question in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Pluto Press, London, UK, pp. 31-53. ISBN 9780745330822

Mkandawire, Thandika (2011) Running while others walk: knowledge and the challenge of Africa's development. Africa development, 36 (2). pp. 1-36. ISSN 0850-3907

2010

Mkandawire, Thandika (2010) From maladjusted states to democratic developmental states in Africa. In: Edigheji, Omano, (ed.) Constructing a democratic developmental state in South Africa: potentials and challenges. HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa. ISBN 9780796923332

Mkandawire, Thandika (2010) On tax efforts and colonial heritage in Africa. Journal of development studies, 46 (10). pp. 1647-1669. ISSN 0022-0388

Mkandawire, Thandika (2010) Aid, accountability and democracy in Africa. Social research, 77 (4). pp. 1149-1182. ISSN 0037-783X

Mkandawire, Thandika (2010) How the new poverty agenda neglected social and employment policies in Africa. Journal of human development and capabilities, 11 (1). pp. 37-55. ISSN 1945-2829

2009

Mkandawire, Thandika (2009) Institutional monocropping and monotasking in Africa. In: Noman, Akbar and Botchwey, Kwesi and Stein, Howard and Stiglitz, Joseph E., (eds.) Good growth and governance in Africa: rethinking development strategies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199698578

Mkandawire, Thandika (2009) Institutional monocropping and monotasking in Africa. United Nations Research institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland

Mkandawire, Thandika (2009) From the national question to the social question. Transformation: critical perspectives on South Africa, 69 pp. 130-160. ISSN 2587-696

2008

Mkandawire, Thandika (2008) Social sciences and the next development agenda. Forum for development studies, 35 (1). pp. 101-117. ISSN 0803-9410

2007

Mkandawire, Thandika (2007) ‘Good governance’: the itinerary of an idea. Development in practice, 17 (4-5). pp. 679-681. ISSN 0961-4524

Mkandawire, Thandika (2007) Transformative social policy and innovation in developing countries. The European journal of development research, 19 (1). pp. 13-29. ISSN 0957-8811

2006

Mkandawire, Thandika (2006) Global funds: lessons from a not-too-distant past? Africa development, 31 (4). pp. 1-21. ISSN 0850-3907

Mkandawire, Thandika (2006) Social development policies: new challenges for the social sciences. International social science journal, 58 (189). pp. 395-404. ISSN 0020-8701

Mkandawire, Thandika (2006) The intellectual itinerary of Jeffrey Sachs. Africa review of books, 21 (1). pp. 4-5. ISSN 0851-7592

2005

Mkandawire, Thandika, (eds.) (2005) African intellectuals: rethinking politics, language, gender and development. Zed Books, London, UK. ISBN 9781842776216

Mkandawire, Thandika (2005) African intellectuals and nationalism. In: African intellectuals: rethinking politics, language, gender and development . Zed Books in association with CODESRIA Books, London, UK, pp. 10-55. ISBN 9781842776209

Mkandawire, Thandika (2005) Maladjusted African economies and globalisation. Africa development, 30 (1 & 2). pp. 1-33. ISSN 0850-3907

Mkandawire, Thandika (2005) Towards a development, democratic and socially inclusive Africa once again. CODESRIA bulletin, 3&4 ISSN 0850-0712

2004

Mkandawire, Thandika, (eds.) (2004) Social policy in a development context. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK . ISBN 9781403936608

Mkandawire, Thandika (2004) Disempowering new democracies and the persistence of poverty. In: Spoor, Max , (ed.) Globalisation, poverty and conflict. Kluwer, Netherlands, pp. 117-145. ISBN 9781402028571

2003

Mkandawire, Thandika (2003) Can African have developmental states? In: Bromley, Simon and Mackintosh, Maureen and Brown, William and Wuyts, Michael, (eds.) Making the international economic interdependence and political order. Pluto Press in association with the Open University, London, UK. ISBN 9780745321356

Mkandawire, Thandika and Soludo , Charles C. , (eds.) (2003) African voices on structural adjustment: a companion to 'Our continent, our future'. Africa World Press, Trenton, N.J., USA. ISBN 0865437793

2002

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) Intellectuals: post-independence. In: Dickson Eyoh ,, Eyoh and Tiyambe Zeleza , Paul, (eds.) Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 274-280. ISBN 9780415234795

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) Economy: post-independence. In: Dickson Eyoh ,, Eyoh and Tiyambe Zeleza , Paul, (eds.) Encyclopedia of twentieth-century African history . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 168-174. ISBN 9780415234795

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) The terrible toll of post-colonial ‘rebel movements’ in Africa: towards an explanation of the violence against the peasantry. The Journal of modern African studies, 40 (2). pp. 181-215. ISSN 0022-278X

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) Incentives, governance and capacity development: what role for technical assistance in Africa? In: Annan, Kofi and Lopes, Carlos and Malik, Halid and Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, (eds.) Capacity for development new solutions to old problems. Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, UK, pp. 147-168. ISBN 9781853839191

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) Financing of the new partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD). In: Anyang' Nyong'o, Peter and Ghirmazion, Aseghedech and Davinder , Lamba, (eds.) New Partnership for Africa's Development, NEPAD : a new path?. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Regional Office, East and Horn of Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, pp. 105-118. ISBN 9966977201

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) African intellectuals, political culture and development. Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, XV (111:1). pp. 31-47. ISSN 0258-2384

Mkandawire, Thandika (2002) Globalisation equity and social development. African Sociological Review, 6 (1). pp. 115-137. ISSN 1027-4332

2001

Mkandawire, Thandika (2001) Social policy in a development context. Social policy and development programme paper, 7. United Nations , Geneva, Switzerland

Mkandawire, Thandika (2001) African intellectuals and nationalism in the changing global context. Australasian review of African studies, xxiii (1). pp. 11-31. ISSN 1447-8420

Mkandawire, Thandika (2001) Thinking about developmental states in Africa. Cambridge journal of economics, 25 (3). pp. 289-314. ISSN 0309-166X

Mkandawire, Thandika (2001) Policy coherence: trends and policy implications for international development cooperation. Parliamentary Commission on Swedish Policy for Global Development, Stockholm, Sweden

2000

Mkandawire, Thandika and Rodríguez, Virginia (2000) Globalization and social development after Copenhagen: premises, promises and policies. Occasional paper, no. 10. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Sweden

Mkandawire, Thandika (2000) Agrarian capitalism: from colonial rule to structural adjustment. In:Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series, Spring 2000 (24 March, 2000 : Yale University).

Mkandawire, Thandika (2000) Non-organic intellectuals and "learning" in policy-making Africa. In: Carlsson, Jerker and Wohlgemuth, Lennart, (eds.) Learning in Development Co-operation. Expert Group on Development Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, Sweden, pp. 205-212.

1999

Mkandawire, Thandika and Soludo , Charles C. (1999) Our continent, our future: African perspectives on structural adjustment. Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal. ISBN 155250204X

1995

Mkandawire, Thandika and Olukoshi, Adebayo, (eds.) (1995) Between liberalisation and oppression: the politics of structural adjustment in Africa. CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal. ISBN 9782869780538

Mkandawire, Thandika and Olukoshi, Adebayo (1995) Issues and perspectives in the politics of structural adjustment in Africa. In: Mkandawire, Thandika and Olukoshi, Adebayo , (eds.) Between liberalisation and oppression: the politics of structural adjustment in Africa. Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal, pp. 1-18. ISBN 2869780540

1993

De St Jorre, John and Cornia, Giovanni Andrea and van der Hoeven, Rolph and Mkandawire, Thandika, (eds.) (1993) Africa’s recovery in the 1990s: from stagnation and adjustment to human development. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK. ISBN 9780312086312

1989

Mkandawire, Thandika (1989) Structural adjustment and agrarian crisis in Africa: a research agenda. Working paper, no. 2. CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal

1988

Mamdani, Mahmood and Mkandawire, Thandika and Wamba dia Wamba, Ernest (1988) Social movements, social transformation and the struggle for democracy in Africa. CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal

1987

Mkandawire, Thandika and Bourenane, N., (eds.) (1987) The state and agriculture in Africa. CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal. ISBN 9781870784016

Mkandawire, Thandika Targeting and universalism in poverty reduction. In: Policy Matters. . ISSN 1020-8208

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Awards

Honorary Doctorate, University of Helsinki (2011)

 

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